Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 36, Hope, Bartholomew County, 29 December 1892 — Page 3

| A WIFE'S BRAYE FEAT. (Tims Biftlnirs. • A group of young officers wore Boated around a table in the quarters of bne of them, at a frontier post in tho West. It was a winter’s night; wind, snow and cold were without, but in tho log put a bright fire blazed upon tho open jhearlh, and tho bare room was made in a sense homelike by rugs stretched pver the plank floor and photographs of lino pictures pinned upon the walls. loo regiment was a particularly |fluli one. Not a young girl in the tost, and the wives of the senior (Officers were women who looked upon life from a serious and practical point of view. Mails came irregularly, tho Indians were quiet, dullness reigned. But now a ripple stirred the placid rwators. The Colonel's widowed sister had arrived. Sho was barely five-av:!-twenty, she was childless and rich in this world’s goods. “What do you think of tho Colonel's sister?” said one of the officers. “vVhat do I think of her? I think that sho has the saddest pair of eyes 1 aver saw,” said another. “Just my thought.” “And mine.” “I made this same remark to the Colonel’s wife,” said the first speaker, “and sho told mo she thought it best to tell me Mrs. Warden’s story, so that “wo might all be the more careful in keeping away from subjects in her presence, which might bring back to her the sad experience of her past.” liottie Hansom met, while visiting her brother, an officer named Warden. Bo was a man of independent means, and on his marriage resigned his commission. But before a year had passed a longing for the freedom of frontier life was so strong upon him that ho easily persuaded his wife to try r anch • life. They found a beautiful tract of land, rich in soil and with excellent water supplies. To bo sure, their Eastern friends cried out that they were “taking their lives in their own hands.” Bid they not realize that they were going into a section of the country wtyero Indians ware within a day’s inarch of them? “Yes," Warden said. “I realize this, but tho Indians are as harmless as a flock of sheep, and besides the ranch is only twenty miles from Fort The Wardens built themselves a comfortable house and were fortunate in •securing a burly Dutchman and his plethoric frau for servants. Mrs. Warden was an excellent horsewoman and a good shot, so they enjoyed long rides about the country and seldom camo homo without a wellfilled game-bag. As I have said, their nearest neighbors ware at tho Fort—twenty miles beyond—that is, neighbors of their sort, for here and there between wore lands worked by Swedish and Danish homesteaders. At the close of the first year a child —a little girl—was born. When this child was about three months old Warden found it necessary to attend to , some legal matters, and to do this | there must bo a ride of o hundred and twenty miles. Warden felt no fear in leaving his wife, yet when ho stood on the doorstep ready to start he said to her: “Mettle, if any trouble should come, have the team put to the big covered wagon and make for the fort. Take | the north fork trail, and be sure to havo your pistols loaded and plenty of reserve shots at hand, and if the red devils should make escape impossible put the muzzle first to baby’s breast and then to your own.” His wife laughed and told him sho had no fears. “Neither,” said ho. “have I, but for all that, remember, sweetheart,” and then he rode away. A week passed, and late one afternoon the German, Johann, came into the room where Mrs. Warden was sitting with her baby in hey arms. His ruddy face was so blanched that it took no words to tell that something i had happened. And this was what ho had to tell: A few minutes before, I ‘Bob,’ a miserable half-breed to whom both Mr. and Mrs. Warden had shown many kindnesses, had appeared sud- I denly in the barn, given Johann a ■ , essage for Mrs. Warden, and then-1 as suddenly departed as he had come, He told Johann; ‘ ‘A train of emigrant wagons is on the valley road. An attack is planned. It is known that Mr. Warden is away from homo. If the Indians find liquor there is no telling what they would do next, and Mrs. Warden had better try for the fort as soon as night closes in.” With all speed Mrs. Warden made her preparations, obeying her husband’s instructions except as regarded the horses. “Saddle Kitty and Dan,” she said to Johann, and when he grumbled that “Kitty could never pull with Dan,” the quiet look on his mistress’ face made him go out rather sullenly to do ' her bidding. When the last bars of the early spring twilight had quite faded out of the sky the Perilous journey to the fort began. 1 or an hour or more the wagon dragged its way along the narrow, steep road, the wheels sinking deep into the mud that tho many warm rains had made. Suddenly Johann held up the horses, amd with a moan of “Meina Gott. we i

are lost!” began to cross himself and ] mumble rapid prayers, while his wife wrung her hands and sobbed aloud. Down in the valley far below them, the gloom was broken by a sudden bright light; they were too far away to distinguish sounds, but they knew the work of murder and pillage had begun; knew that mothers’ tears and and Utile children’s cries would only add zest to the savage revelry. Holding her baby close to her breast Mrs. Warden tried to shut out for a moment every passing fear as she asked for higher guidance, and in that moment the German and his wife—flying to evils that they knew not of—abandoned tho wagon and took to the timber.' Deft utterly alone, there was but one thing to do. Laying her baby among the straw, Mrs. Warden climbed out of the wagon and unharnessed her little mare Kitty. Tho graceful creature scorned as conscious of all that was transpiring as though sho possessed a human soul. Sho did not whinny at the sight and touch of her mistress’ hands. She only rubbed her cool nose against Mrs. Warden’s cheek and then stood very still. When the unharnessing was accomplished Mrs Warden put her arms around Kilty’s neck. “Kitty,” sho said, “you are my only hope; Kitty, you must carry baby and me to the fort; we shall have to creep along tho edge of the timber, (we might be seen on the trail.) Walk with muffled hoofs, Kitty; save baby and me.” All through the long starless night tho mother, holding her child wrapped closely under her cloak, with no rein hut the silken mane of Kitty to guide with, rode for life. Sho will never forget how quietly tho baby slept, how carefully the little mare picked her way through the underbrush, looking' back now and then as much MB to say, “Take heart, dfiy and help are both OOffliiig.” In the early morning a company of men from the fort, to the rescue bound, camo upon Mrs. Warden. She was I numb with weariness, faint with tho effort sho had made, tho strain she had undergone; but her mother love knew no sense of tiredness. “Baby is safe and warm under my cloak,” she said; “she has been so good, and has nestled and slept all tho way.” They took the child froifi her arms nd found that it was dead. A Goliath in Stone. 1 New York Lodger. Vinalhaven, Me., claims to have produced the largest stone ever brought to light. Bodwell Granite Company recently quarried a shaft of granite which is the largest piece of stone ever quarried anywhere, and, if erected, will bo the- highest, largest and heaviest single piece of solid stone standing, or that ever stood, so far as any record can be found. In height] it considerably exceeds any of the Egyptian obelisks. The tallest of these, which was brought from Heliopolis to Alexandria by Emperor Constantine, and afterward taken to Borne, , whore it is still standing, is 105 feet I 7 inches high, while the Vinalhaven shaft is 115 feet long, 10 feet square at tho base, and weighs 850 tons. It is understood that the company quarried this immense monolith of their own account, not having an order for anything of tho kind, and they suggest that it would be a fitting contribution | from Maine for the monument to be erected in honor of Gen. Grant. Hoosier Philosophy. Arkitnsaw Traveler. It’s a fool boss that don’t know who’s boss. A colt'll frolick in the mornin’; an old boss at night. ’Tain’t alius the purtiest girl that kin make the best flapjacks. A feller that’s honest with himself'll be honest with his nabors. You wanter watch tho feller that’s alius keen for a boss trade. A balky boss an’ a kickin’ cow make lots o’ trouble on the place. The crow is er mighty peart bird, but, for all his fine looks, he sucks eggs, jess the same. Some folks kin ’tend to other people's business a blamed sight better’n they kin to their own. ’Tain’t tho hardest licks that alius drives a wedge in the furdest; sometimes gentle taps’ll make it stick a heap tho best. A Census as Is a Census. Nebraska Journal. People who think that (he census is • ‘inquisitorial” should go. to Germany and live for a few months under a really paternal government. Tho German year-book gives information of the most personal nature, even to the incomes of the people and the rent paid on, their houses. The statistics of, diseases are very complete. Apparently nothing escapes the vigilance of the census officials, who are aided to a great extent by the police. He Was Knitted Out. The only liquor saloon that was ever opened in Moore’s Hill, Ind., was “knit out” by the temperance women of the place. “You see, it was this way,” says a citizen. “When the saloon was started the women formed in relays and went and took their knitting to the saloon. Of course that knocked business higher than a kite. It was not long before that saloon hod tc be closed, and since that time no man hav ‘ ever had the nerve to start another.'

TEIfSYSOR OH WOMEH, Quotat ions That Show Ills Opinion of One-Half of Creation. Lord Tennyson, who, many people think, was scarcely less a philosopher whose opinions are authoritative than a poet whose words are a delight, said in the course of his career many things about women, says the New York Herald. If he had been merely a poet the fact would not have been so important, for the poets are forced to sap '‘whatever suits the rhyme,” but as he was a thinker also it is int resting to see how he interprets the puzzling half of creation. One thing that he insists upon is the indissoluble bond between them and men. “The woman’s cause is man’s; they rise or sink together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free; if she be small, slight natured, miserable,how shall man grow?” That places quite a burden of responsibility upon woman, out elsewhere he remarks: “As the husband is, the wife is,” which again p aces the burden on the masculine shoulders. Probably the poet meant to divide it. About the esteem in which she should be held, bespeaks in nouncertain manner; “Who does not honor his wife dishonors himself,” and “It is the low man who thinks the woman low.” Somewhat equivocal is this; “It is hard to wive and thrive in a year.” Which probably merely means that so much good fortune does not boffill a man in so short a Huie. His various heroines were till a little at>hve the ordinary. “Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.” “Eyes not down dropped noroverbright, but fed with clear pointed (lame of chastity.” “By common clay, taken from the common earth, molded by God and tempered by the tears of angels to the Perfect form of wpu.cn.” “Pure vestal thoughts in the translucent fane of her still spirit.” “Happy be with such a mother!” Faith in womankind beats with his blood, and thrust in 'all things high comes easy to him; and thnughhe trip and fall, he shall not blind bis soul with clay.” “She stood a sight to make an old man youhg.” So much and much more did he say of women. And they in gratitude may well apply to him other lines of his: “He rested well content that all was well,” and “he crowned a happylife with a fair death.” Calling a Halt. Harper's liazar, “I cannot imagine why I am so tired all the time. It seems to me that I do very little,” said a woman, dragging herself to a chair and sitting down heavily. ' “How many times do you go up and down stairs?” inquired a friend. The house was in a city, high and narrow, with four long stairways, three of which intervened between the kitchen and the mother s “own room.” “Why. not very often; I don’t know. I have a good many errands about the house, here and there, and rny impulse is usually to wait on myself. I suppose 1 spend a good deal of strength on the s'.airs, now I think of it.” 1 “And pardon the suggestion but you are always lookingoutfor others so much and so generously that others ought to look out for you; have 3 : ou ever thought how often you are interrupted in the progress of the day? The ordering of the house is the first tiling, but some trifle is forgotten, pepper or salt, flavor or seasoning, and you are consulted about that. Then your big boy comes to you with his necktie and his cuffs, and your four-year-old has pinched his finger and needs comforting; your daughters have no end of affairs in which you must be the counsellor, and your husband leaves the weight of his perplexities and the irritability that grows out of his overwork on your ever ready strength. Hear, it is not wonderful that you are tired! The wonder is that yo\j rest so soon, after a nap <jr a littlfc time by yourself coming out to the family made over again.” ■•“ut what can I do? All that you n on forms a part of the every :1a> duty of a wrmm like myself, whoso main work in the world is to keep her home happy and comfortable.” “Once in a while you might call a halt. You should pack a little bag and run away for a three days’ visit, leaving the housekeeping to the young shoulder, which will find it miy a slight burden. It is an imperative duty occasionally to take care of one's capital if one bo a wife ind a mother.” In vho interest of ' he rest, for the sake of the days that are coming, a matron must be provdent of her own health, not sufferng herself to drift into nervous , >r >stration or wearisome invalidism. There are graves ’not? a few over which the inscription wight be writ-

ten, “Here lies Mary , the be-1 loved wife of Theodore , tired to I death.” and in most cases the blame is not Theodore's but Mary's own. She should have called a halt iu time. Apples as Mcdltnue. Medical Age Chemically the apple is composed of vegetable fiber, albumen sugar, gum, chlorophi'l, malic acid, gallic acid, lime and much water. Furthermore. the German analysts say that the apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorous than any other fruit or vegetable. The phosphorous is admirably adapted for renewing the essential nervous matter, lecithin of the brain and spinal cord. It is, perhaps, for the same reason, ru lely understood, that the old Scandinavian traditions represent the apple as the food of the gods, who, when they felt thems Ives to be growing feeble and infirm, resorted to this fruit for the purpose of re newing their powers of mind and body. Also, the acids of the apple are of signal use for men of sedentary habits, whose livers are sluggish iu action, those acids serving to eliminate from the body noxious matters, whigh, if retained, would make the brain heavy and dull or bring about jaundice dr skin eruptions and other allied troubles. Some such an experience must have led to our custom of taking apple sauce witli roast pork,, rich goose and like dishes. The majiie acid of ripe apples, cither raw or cooked, will neutralise any excess of chalky matter engendered by eating too much meat. It is also the fact that such fresh fruits as the apple, the i pear and the plum, when taken ripe I and without sugar, diminish acidity I in the stomach rather than 'provoke ! it. Their vegetable sauces and juices are converted into alkaline carbonates, which tend to counteract acidity. Students ihcUariagdlib Jourfir.1. Tuff Mugs—Gee! Here comes do cop, an’ it’s too late to run! Baryl Howes—Hoi' I'll fix ’i.n. By gosh! Hog wash! Some slosh! Hum -fat! Ding bat! Ray! Hoo! Raw. And.the Innocent policeiiiUll merely murmured: “Them is about- the toughest lookin’ students I ever see,” and passed on. Mis Parting Shot. , Chicago Tribune. I He —But couldn’t 3*ou learn to love rne. Ida? | She—I don’t think I could, i George. He (reaching for hts hat) —It is as I feared! You are too old to learn! A Skilled Opinion. Mr. Trolley—Do tell me, Mr. Kan- | vass, which is the greatest work ! of art? Mr. Kativass—Selling the paint- [ ings, madam. I “ —~

I Tarn About Is Fair Play.

VOTES OF THE STATES- ! Tabulated and Complste F igurea ct the Rece -t Electionsome Of the Surprises—The Latest Elee« oral Kstimato. « This table elves the vote of the country at the lust election. Tho figures aro ohciul, but they may in some instances be chanced by the canvassing boards. I he results, however, will vary only slightly from those hero given. tJs states. Clevc- Ilarrl- W eav- Bidlaud. son. or. weH. Alobaraa l-"8, T8 9,197 85-1*] Arltaufiiis 87.81-1 49,974 11,871 11-1 California:!... II7.U08 117,756 85,239 7.1-6 Connecticut.... £8, '1S5 77,03.)i 869 4.n.K Colorado Fusion .18,980 53,5.4 1,9Dclawaro 18,578 18,077 971 Florida 30,143 4,8-1" 571 Georgia.189.303 48.305 48,9 9 9* lilalio Fusion 8.799 1»,436| Illinois 489.881 ."99,888 88.00- 25.8,0 Indiana 208.740 a'5.615 28,80= I8,0» Iowa 199.337 819,79 20.595 9.4)8 Kansas Fusloni 157.841 193,111 4,553 Kentucky 175.401 1.5.411 83.500 9,448 I.ouisiana 87,978 85, I-,’-" 1 Maine 40.041 98.87 1 2.383 S.Offi Maryland 111.890 91.. Sj 7iC 5,877 M issachusetts 17.1,858 .07.928 7,n» 3.348 Michigan 8,19.899 888.708 19. 97 20.909 Minnesota II7T177 1 2,733 ,10.39 > 44,417 Mississippi 40.237 1,409 10.85(1 910 Mlssoml £01.039 826,884 41.1 as 4,298 Montana 17.535 18.818 7,31)5 »36 N i bras ka 84,913 £7.887 83,114 4,9(13 Nevada 710 8,98) 7.8.10] 125 N. Hampshire 47,078 45,653 1,8 7 876 New Jersey 171.048 159.09S 9 « 811 Now York 954.908 (109.45. 13,130 38.18. North Carolina 132,9M 100,341 44,718 8,638 North Dakota Fusion 17,4=1. 17.9501 875 Ohio 404.115 405.18 14,852 89,0 » Oregon 13,1,7 34.5 A( 8 (81 15. .81 Pennsylvania .. 457,294 510,011 8 ill 25,34 Ithodc Island .. 24,339 81,975 3-3 1,554 South Carolina 54.9 e 13 1181 8.410 South Dakota., 8.937 8-1,885 IK,888 Tennessee 138.4 7 99,975 88.618 4,85* Texas 239.14 77,47:. *9,788 2,166 Vermont I9,3-.T» 37,993 -181 1.424 Virginia 191, 77 113,070 12,87-lJ 8.7*5 Washington 8', SI, -.60 li)>-5 i 2,(517 We-t Virginia - 8*.-167 80,393) 4,,05 Wlscons.n 177,1135 170,719 #,wo (3,132 ■Wyoming Fusion' s,t73 ".v-ft 601 Totals J5,657,93015,183,933 1,01 8,708377,13t The star ", Indicates Increase over I8S6; tho dagre- ,{he decrease over 1888. llosido-the vote Ci VOB “t,ivo, there were tho followin'’; ,,nig, .Socialist, 3,20 votes in Cuii..d, I lent, 0T6 in Massachusetts, 1,337 id Nev/ Jersey, I.,(68 In Now York, and 808 id Rhode Island; total, 31,136. Scattering vole: 1,367 in Arkansas, 3.0.14 in Georgia, 4 in Maine, 14 in Massachusetts, 105 In South Dakota, 3,069 in Texas, 11 in Vermont, and 131 in Wisconsin. Total veto of the country. 12.086.445. Cleveland’s plurality over Harrison. 373,018. The election was full of surprises. The total result falls two million votes short of some of tho ante-election estimates. Counting tlia scattering vote and all, tho toui vote " f Uie country for 1897 is 13.080,445. IJulot tnls n;:rrI’" 1 * 234,4 1 votes were contributed by the six new “f-ates. Therefore the actual gain over four yeaio ago is only 41(7,033. The vote for President in 1S83 was; Cleveland 5,538,333 Harrison 5,4-10,316 Fisk, Pro 249,907 Streeter, Union Labor 148,105 Scat luring- 4,399 Comparison shows, therefore, that Cleveland gains 19,697 votes. Harrison loses 356,3=4 votes. Tho Populace gain over Streeter is 890,603 votes, while the Prohibition! ts gain only 37.217. The largo increase of tho Populace vote is due partly to fusion, which gave it the Democratic vote in Idaho, Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado and much of tho Oregon vote; The greatest increase In the vote ot any one Stale was in Illinois, which shows a gain of 135,‘MO; the largest decrease was 62,’i93 found In Mississippi, where an ediic itlonal Qualification for suffrage was recently enacted. New York State was a great disappointment. The natural increase would have shown a vote of 1,450.(;0i. but only 7,(703 more votes than four years ago wore polled. While the Australian ballot system was In some degree responsible for the light, vote. It can not account for it wholly. A fair assumption seems to lie that thepeople generally were apathetic. Tho vote by electors. If there be no further- changes, will bo; VOll CLEVELAND. Alvtama ... 17 Arkansas S|New Jersey 10 Connecticut 9 New York 39 California 8|NorthCarolina It Delaware .TOhlo *■ |- Florida 4Soiithoarolina . 9 Georgia 18,Tennessee at 13 Illinois U Texas Jg 15 Indiana.. 15 Virginia *1 18 Kentucky 13 West Virginia Jj£ 6 Louisiana U Wisconsin vr 13 Maryland 9, -agf — M chigan B| Total jggp- *76 Mississippi 6 FOR HARRISON. "4JE3SSS?* California I Ohio SI Iowa.. .. 13 Oregon S Maine 9 Pennsyluania 31 Massachusetts...., (5 Rhode Island 4 Michigan 9 South Dakota 4 Minnesota 9 Veimont 4 Montana 3 Washington.... 4 Nebraska 8 Wjomihg 8 New Hampshire .... 4 — North Dakota 1 Total 145 FOR WEAVER, Colorado 4 | North Dakota - - - 8 Idaho 3 i Oregon - - - - 4 Kansas ----- 10 I — Nevada 3 1 Total - - - 82 A MORMON ELDORADO. It’.oh Diggings Discovered in 1 itali —Towns Dspopu'ated by the ICusli to tho Now Fields. Durango, Col., has gone crazy over the reported discovery of rich placer diggings, located In southern Utah, whore the Sau Juan river empties into tho Colorado, Tho find is unparalleled since tho days of 1849. Along tho line of tho Atlantic <fc Pacific railroad tho towns are almost depopulated, and fourteen thousand men are already ou the scene. Tho placer wero discovered less than a year ago by a Navajo trapper. He Interested Eastern capital, and Ills machinery was secretly shipped to tho placers under the proteose that it was to bo used in developing coa 1 mines. An old prospector noted the nature of the machinery and outfit, and wont back to Winslow with a report of his discovery. Since then every available means of transportation has been headed for the diggings. The exodus from Durango commenced Wednesday, A company has been formed to operate a stage fine, the time from there being shorter than from aur other point.